A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 19, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said April 20, 2012, that some ACE Reports do not contain the most up to date data. The affected reports include: all Entry Summary reports, all Declaration reports (under the Account Management folder), and AD-8027 (Trade Aged Liquidation ADCVD Entry Summary Report). The data load is continuing to run and CBP anticipates reports to be up to date by April 21, 2012 at 0800 EDT (8am). A subsequent message will be distributed when the data load is complete.
This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s April 16, 2012, “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly April 16, 2012 “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”1
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will update its list of airports approved to accept aircraft traveling to or from Cuba, according to a notice to be published in the Federal Register April 20, 2012. Part 122, subpart O, of the CBP regulations sets forth special procedures that apply to all aircraft (except public aircraft) entering or departing the U.S. to or from Cuba. On January 28, 2011, CBP published a final rule in the Federal Register (76 FR 5058) that amended the CBP regulations to establish such procedures and airport eligibility criteria.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its April 18 Customs Bulletin. While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent information collection notices and recent Court of International Trade decisions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used its allotment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 for the authorized purposes, a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found. The report also concluded that CBP, the General Services Administration, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established adequate oversight and monitoring processes and procedures over the construction and alteration projects, said the OIG.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
In early January 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued instructions for the ten weekly Special Import Quota announcements for Upland Cotton that were issued by the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation. CBP also listed the dates and quantities for each of the ten. In February and March, CBP added weekly Special Quotas 22 - 26, and Special Quotas 1-4. CBP's instructions, with the new Special Quotas 5-9 are summarized below.